Part 1: Key Ideas and Vocabulary

Globalization is the increasing connection and interdependence of people, places, economies, cultures, and technologies around the world.

Visual reminder: Use the icons to help connect each idea to its meaning: 💰 economic, 👥 social, 🎵 cultural, and 🌐 technological.

Interdependence: 🤝 ________________________________________________

Trade: 💰 __________________________________________________________

Technology: 🌐 _____________________________________________________

Culture: 🎵 ________________________________________________________

Migration: ✈️ _______________________________________________________

Multinational corporation: 🏢 _________________________________________

Globalization connects people and places in many ways. Economically, countries trade goods and services, and companies may produce products in several different countries. Socially, people migrate, study, work, and communicate across borders. Culturally, music, food, clothing, languages, and ideas travel and change as people interact. Technologically, the internet, smartphones, and transportation allow information and products to move quickly. These connections create benefits, such as greater choice and new opportunities, but they can also create challenges, such as unequal working conditions, environmental concerns, and pressure on local cultures. Because countries and people depend on one another, globalization creates interdependence.

a) Name one economic and one technological connection described in the passage.

Sentence starter: One economic connection is __________. One technological connection is __________.

b) Why can globalization create both benefits and challenges?

Sentence starter: Globalization can be helpful because __________, but it can also __________.

Part 2: Global Connections in Action

Icon clues: 💰 E = economic, 👥 S = social, 🎵 C = cultural, 🌐 T = technological.

_____ A Canadian company imports coffee beans from another country.

_____ A student video-chats with relatives living overseas.

_____ A style of music becomes popular in many countries.

_____ A smartphone uses a global positioning system and internet connection.

_____ A worker moves to Canada to find employment.

_____ A clothing company designs products in one country and sells them worldwide.

Cause: A product is made using materials, workers, and factories in several countries.

Effect on people or places: _________________________________________

Possible benefit: ___________________________________________________

Possible challenge: _________________________________________________

Sentence starters: This may affect __________ by __________. A possible benefit is __________. A possible challenge is __________.

Extension: Choose one product, such as a smartphone, food item, or piece of clothing. Explain who might benefit and who might face a challenge at two different stages of its global journey.

Planning prompt: At stage 1, __________ may benefit because __________, while __________ may face a challenge because __________. At stage 2, __________ may benefit because __________, while __________ may face a challenge because __________.

Alternative response formats: You may show your thinking with labelled arrows, dot points, a speech-to-text response, or a recorded response if writing or processing is difficult.

Part 3: Exit Ticket

Sentence starter: Globalization affects my daily life because __________. This shows __________.

Response choice: You may write your answer, use dot points and labelled arrows, dictate it using speech-to-text, or give a recorded response.

Differentiation and Extension

Additional Support

Vocabulary bank: connection, relying on one another, buying and selling, tools and systems, shared beliefs and practices, movement of people, company operating in several countries, benefit, challenge, stage, product journey.

Visual vocabulary clues: 🤝 interdependence = relying on one another; 💰 trade = buying and selling; 🌐 technology = tools and systems; 🎵 culture = shared beliefs and practices; ✈️ migration = movement of people; 🏢 multinational corporation = company operating in several countries.

Sentence starters:

Globalization means __________________________________________.

One connection between countries is __________________________.

A benefit of globalization is _________________________________.

A challenge of globalization is _______________________________.

This product travels from __________ to __________.

Partially Completed Globalization/Product-Journey Diagram

Choose a product and complete the missing labels. Add a benefit and a challenge at two different stages.

Alternative Ways to Respond

For writing or processing needs, students may use labelled arrows to show cause and effect, answer in dot points, use speech-to-text, or submit a recorded oral response. Students should still include the required vocabulary, connections, benefits, or challenges.

Extension for Confident Students

Compare who benefits and who faces challenges at two different stages of a product’s global journey. Explain how the effects may be different for workers, companies, consumers, communities, and the environment. Use at least two key vocabulary terms and clearly label both stages.

Answer Key

1. Vocabulary:

• Interdependence: Relying on one another.
• Trade: Buying and selling goods or services between people, businesses, or countries.
• Technology: Tools and systems used to solve problems, communicate, or move information and products.
• Culture: Shared beliefs, traditions, language, food, music, and practices of a group.
• Migration: The movement of people from one place to another.
• Multinational corporation: A company that operates in more than one country.

2a. Passage comprehension: Accept any accurate examples from the passage. One economic connection is that countries trade goods and services or that companies produce products in several countries. One technological connection is that the internet, smartphones, or transportation move information or products quickly.

2b. Passage comprehension: Globalization can provide greater choice, jobs, communication, and new opportunities. It can also cause unequal working conditions, environmental concerns, or pressure on local cultures.

3. Classification: In order, the correct answers are:

1. E — A Canadian company imports coffee beans from another country.
2. T — A student video-chats with relatives living overseas.
3. C — A style of music becomes popular in many countries.
4. T — A smartphone uses a global positioning system and internet connection.
5. S — A worker moves to Canada to find employment.
6. E — A clothing company designs products in one country and sells them worldwide.

4. Cause and effect: Answers may vary. One model answer is: The global product journey may create jobs and make products available in more places. A possible benefit is lower prices or employment for workers. A possible challenge is pollution, unsafe working conditions, or unfair wages.

5. Benefits and challenges: Accept any two accurate benefits and two accurate challenges. Possible benefits include greater choice of products, new jobs, lower prices, cultural exchange, improved communication, and access to new technology. Possible challenges include pollution, environmental damage, unequal working conditions, unfair wages, pressure on local cultures, and reduced support for local businesses.

Extension model answer: For a smartphone, workers and companies may benefit at the manufacturing stage because the factory provides jobs and earns money. Workers or communities may face challenges if wages are low or conditions are unsafe. At the consumer stage, consumers benefit from access to communication and information, while the environment may face a challenge because electronic waste must be managed.

6. Exit ticket model answer: Globalization affects my daily life because my smartphone may contain parts made in different countries. This shows interdependence because countries and companies rely on one another.

Additional Support sentence starters:

• Globalization means: people, places, economies, cultures, and technologies becoming more connected.
• One connection between countries is: trading goods or communicating through technology.
• A benefit of globalization is: greater choice, new opportunities, or access to products and ideas.
• A challenge of globalization is: pollution, unfair working conditions, or pressure on local cultures.
• This product travels from: a place where raw materials are collected, through factories and transport systems, to consumers.

Partially Completed Globalization/Product-Journey Diagram: Answers will vary by product. One acceptable example is: Raw materials → Manufacturing → Transport → Retail store → Consumer. Materials might come from mines, farms, or forests. Workers at the stage might be miners, farmers, factory workers, drivers, or store employees. A benefit could be employment or access to products. A challenge could be pollution, low wages, unsafe conditions, or resource depletion. People, places, economies, and the environment may all be affected.

Alternative response formats: Accept written answers, labelled arrows, dot points, speech-to-text, or recorded responses if they accurately show the required vocabulary, connections, benefits, or challenges.

Extension for Confident Students: Answers will vary. Strong responses should clearly identify two stages, compare who benefits and who faces challenges at each stage, discuss workers, companies, consumers, communities, or the environment, and correctly use at least two key vocabulary terms such as trade, migration, technology, culture, interdependence, or multinational corporation.